In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon R7 360X are noticeably better than the Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti Gainward 1GB Edition.

The Radeon R7 360X has a 172 MHz higher core clock speed but 8 fewer Texture Mapping Units than the GTX 650 Ti. The lower TMU count doesn't matter, though, as altogether the Radeon R7 360X manages to provide 2.2 GTexel/s better texturing performance. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The Radeon R7 360X has a 172 MHz higher core clock speed than the GTX 650 Ti and the same number of Render Output Units. This results in the Radeon R7 360X providing 2.8 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The Radeon R7 360X was released over three years more recently than the GTX 650 Ti, and so the Radeon R7 360X is likely to have far better driver support, meaning it will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the GTX 650 Ti when running the latest games.

The Radeon R7 360X has 1024 MB more video memory than the GTX 650 Ti, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. This is supported by the fact that the Radeon R7 360X also has superior memory performance overall.

The Radeon R7 360X has 17.6 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GTX 650 Ti, which means that the memory performance of the Radeon R7 360X is slightly better than the GTX 650 Ti.

The Radeon R7 360X has 896 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Gainward 1GB Edition has 768. However, the actual shader performance of the Radeon R7 360X is 876 and the actual shader performance of the GTX 650 Ti is 713. The Radeon R7 360X having 163 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the Radeon R7 360X delivers a noticeably smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the GTX 650 Ti.

The Radeon R7 360X requires 120 Watts to run but there is no entry for the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Gainward 1GB Edition. We would recommend a PSU with at least 500 Watts for the Radeon R7 360X.